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Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by bcraven on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:01AM (#31164096)
I don't understand how? Surely estimating someone's bone structure does not need a 3D model.

A image-to-skeleton pipeline might even be useful for 2D sprite rigging.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by robbrown451 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:08AM (#31164154)
Pretty sure that's not what is intended. They used to sell supposed x-ray googles to gullible people, the ads implying you'd be able to see people naked.
Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:22AM (#31164226)
The killer app that will take AR mainstream.
Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:12AM (#31164847)
> They used to sell supposed x-ray googles to gullible people, the ads implying you'd be able to see people naked.

This is actually technology we already have today. You wouldn't want X-ray goggles, but infrared "goggles" would do the job just fine. Like X-rays, infrared light will pass right through clothes; unlike X-rays, it won't pass through skin.

Hook up an IR camera to a VR headset and you're there.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by ge96 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:21AM (#31164898)
One day I was messing around with an IR camera for RPi and was surprised to see the magnets inside of my black plastic closed headphones.
Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by Brian_K_White on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:21AM (#31164216)
It isn't about skeletons, it's about clothing.

If an ai can reconstruct a view of the far side of something from data like the near side view and the shadows & other effects on the surrounding environment, then it can do the same thing to reconstruct a view of what's underneath clothing, theoretically, which may be reasonably restated as eventually.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:14AM (#31164860)
> If an ai can reconstruct a view of the far side of something from data like the near side view and the shadows & other effects on the surrounding environment, then it can do the same thing to reconstruct a view of what's underneath clothing

This is actually not something that people want. The body within clothes is generally constrained by them in ways that look odd if you can't see the clothes; what people really want is to see what someone would look like if they were naked, not what they would look like if their clothes were invisible.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by stephen_g on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:07AM (#31165116)
Well, with the right training data I imagine you could make something that produce an imaginary model of what the person might look like naked in the same pose but unconstrained by clothing. Obviously though, like the system in the link, for everything it can't see it's just constructing it based on what it's been trained with.

Would be super creepy though.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by candiodari on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:37AM (#31165535)
> Would be super creepy though.

You're not thinking evil enough. Provide app for free, then use face recognition to allow people to pay to look better naked through the app.

Re:Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wear... by Brian_K_White on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:31PM (#31172070)
I would assume the main use would be to see people you know, not to enhance yourself, but, I guess there would be a market for that too. Especially for content producers.